Jarre 81 - Info

Jean Michel Jarre opening concert in Beijing China, 21st Oct 1981

Jean Michel Jarre - Beijing 1981 ¦ Musicians and Gear ¦ Information ¦ Copyright ¦ Audio Files

Audio Restored, Enhanced and Remastered (in stereo) by Alvaro M. Rocha

Please mind that Álvaro M. Rocha's enhanced" versions recreate an artificial - altough realistic - stereo field based on the Concerts in China album audiofield.

The opening concert was played for 18 thousand people at the opening Beijing Concert, with the following tracklist:

Oxygene 1

Oxygene 2

Equinoxe 8

Fishing Junks At Sunset

Magnetic Fields

Magnetic Fields 2

Just for the record, JMJ did two concerts in Beijing, in 1981, with 18 and 20 thousand viewers, and three more in Shangai, also in 1981, all the later with 60 thousand viewers each. Alvaro M. Rocha tried the best compromise between the mono source and a final good audio product, punching up all the songs without adding a single thing, thus just treating audio to make it more similar to that of the official album "Concerts in China". Hence Álvaro M. Rocha tried to follow Jarre's & Geiss's spatial audio engineering, so that you now may have a warm, spatious, stereo, exotic and professional (whatever was possible from the mono broadcast files) sound.